Word: taproot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desuetude, modern educators have sought vainly after the cause and cure of growing religious antipathy among undergraduates. In the fervid scramble after mental and physical achievement, the college has gone blind to things spiritual. With this in mind, the CRIMSON has delved deep until now the "cause causinge," the taproot of the evil lies exposed. By thorough investigation it has been ascertained that the cushions in the chapel pews, unduly hard and cold in the early morning, have enforced many absences. In fact, students of poor physique must needs forego the privilege of morning worship by reason of cramps...
...Story. At 24, Lou Witt was without a taproot. Having drifted from New Orleans to Texas to Paris to Biarritz, Vienna, Palermo, Rome, London, she was as native to one bit of geography as another. Nor could people, any person, hold her. She saw through them, always had her own way. Her best lover, impetuous, paint-daubing Rico, she had subjugated. Now he was merely the futile, shallow Sir Henry Carrington, would-be London society painter, her husband. Their relation had paled to nervous platonism, Lou doubting there was a man who could think quickly and far enough, love largely...